Latest Tunnels News

Italian firm Webuild has celebrated the latest tunnelling breakthrough on the Brenner Base Tunnel project.

Transport for London (TfL) has forecast further cost increases related to patching up the Capital’s ageing surface transport assets.

Work has begun on the Fehmarnbelt tunnel’s Danish portal building, where train and road traffic will descend and drive through the 18km-long tunnel to Germany.

National Highways has launched a further consultation seeking views on 26 proposed design changes to the Lower Thames Crossing project.

HS2 Ltd has confirmed that there was a small fire within its tunnel in the Chiltern hills, which it is now investigating.

The blockade for the Bank station capacity upgrade is now in its final week as Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the Bank branch of the Northern line is to re-open on Monday 16 May.

Transport for London (TfL) has put out a prior information notice (PIN) to begin the process of hiring firms for civils work on the £150M Elephant & Castle station capacity upgrade.

Excavation of the first 10.5km of the base tunnel for the Lyon-Turin rail link has been completed with breakthrough between a 9km section driven by tunnel boring machine and a 1.5km tunnel excavated mechanically.

Tunnelling has now been completed on Tideway, London’s 25km “super sewer” that will reduce the reliance on the capital’s Victorian sewage system, reducing overflows and slashing the amount of untreated waste entering the Thames.

Tunnelling on London’s ‘super sewer’ is officially complete, some four years after work begun.